Over 300 Women Wearing Yoga Pants Staged A Protest After A Man Called Them 'Inappropriate For General Consumption'

There's nothing in this world that could convince us to give up the majestic fashion creation that is the yoga pant, and when one man went on the offensive against our favorite athleisure item, hundreds of stretchy pants lovers faithfully struck back.

Barrington, Rhode Island resident Alan Sorrentino penned a Letter to the Editor of the Barrington Times last Wednesday, in which he condemned yoga pants as "the absolute worst thing to ever happen in women fashion."

"Like the mini-skirt, yoga pants can be adorable on children and young women who have the benefit of nature's blessing of youth" he wrote. "However, on mature, adult women there is something bizarre and disturbing about the appearance they make in public. Maybe it's the unforgiving perspective they provide, inappropriate for general consumption, TMI, or the spector of someone coping poorly with their weight or advancing age that makes yoga pants so weird in public."

But those, Alan, are fighting words, and the ladies of Barrington would not stand for it. More than 300 women showed up at Sorrentino's house on Sunday donning yoga pants and holding signs that read "Love Yourself" and "We Wear What We Want."

Jamie Burke, one of the parade organizers, told the Providence Journal that Sorrentino's words "struck her in the gut," and that "women are fed up with the policing of our wardrobe." And in light of the march, an executive at the athleisure company Dear Kate, donated 100 pairs of yoga pants to the Sojourner Home, a local shelter for women.

Since the protest, Sorrentino has claimed that the letter was written in jest and was actually a commentary on the currently political climate and similar comments made about women's appearances by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

"I assumed the character of this grumpy old man that was railing about women in yoga pants because he was too tight to just relax and accept himself in his age and his own ways" Sorrentino told WPRO News. "It was meant to sound stupid and creepy."

Whatever you say, Alan, but at least now he knows better than to mess with a woman and her yoga pants.